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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it>
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Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest?
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Marin David Condic wrote:

> But who should pick the "Winning Design"? I'd think that ought to be the 
> vendors.

That would definitely be a good solution.

Another one, not quite as effective, would be if those who have written 
the current competing libraries agreed to do it - and to promote the 
winning design in favor of their own old libraries.  If both the SAL, 
Grace, LGL and PragmARC (as well as all the one I have forgotten) 
web-sites promoted the winning design, it would be very likely that lazy 
programmers like me switched.

What do the competing library maintainers say to that suggestion?

Jacob
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